Additional concert: Manfred Honeck and Julia Fischer

Bamberg, Konzerthalle, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal
20:00 Uhr

As is well known, the tour begins in Bamberg: before we embark on our Italian tour with our honorary conductor Manfred Honeck, we will be performing some magnificent compositions at home – including two concertante character pieces, accompanied by Julia Fischer, who was once said to play »with such lightness that one forgets that this music is produced by a human being and an instrument – here, the music simply seems to flow from a soul and carries the listener away«. The two works for violin and orchestra included in the programme are not only close to our hearts, but also to hers, as the charming top violinist has a very personal connection to them: her mother is from Slovakia, and the sounds of Eastern European Romanticism were a fundamental part of her childhood. Josef Suk’s Fantasia, composed in 1902, and Dvořák’s Romance, premiered in 1877, are technically highly demanding and folk-inspired compositions. They pass through heights and depths, summersaults and moments of calm – and we sensitively co-create an enchanting musical dialogue with the soloist. Emotional tension from the pen of a great introspective melancholic also rounds off the concerts: Tchaikovsky’s popular Fifth Symphony dates from 1888 and is a moving portrait of crisis-ridden times. It is permeated by a relentless fate motif, but also offers us beguilingly and expansive melodies and irresistible rhythmic brilliance – and the opening minor-key darkness ultimately gives way to an optimistic conclusion.

Manfred Honeck Conductor
Julia Fischer Violin

Josef Suk Fantasie für Violine und Orchester g-Moll op. 24
Antonín Dvořák Romanze für Violine und Orchester f-Moll op. 11
Piotr I. Tschaikowski Symphonie Nr. 5 e-moll op. 64